the Iron Age
noun
: a period of time between about 3000 B.C. and 1000 B.C. in which people used iron to make weapons and tools
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Last year, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig and the Prehistoric Population and Cultural Dynamics in Highland Pang Mapha Project in Bangkok undertook extensive genetic testing on samples from what is now known as the Iron Age Log Coffin culture.
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New Atlas, 27 Dec. 2025
Both of them were bacteria: one that caused paratyphoid fever and the other relapsing fever, a pathogen transmitted by body lice that dated back to the Iron Age.
—Ari Daniel, NPR, 24 Oct. 2025
Archaeologists have used cutting edge techniques to reveal new information about the intricate tattoos of a woman that lived in Siberia during the Iron Age.
—Jack Guy, CNN Money, 31 July 2025
The Romans slaughtered the native inhabitants, thereby bringing a sudden violent end to the Iron Age.
—ArsTechnica, 31 May 2025
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New Atlas, 27 Dec. 2025
Both of them were bacteria: one that caused paratyphoid fever and the other relapsing fever, a pathogen transmitted by body lice that dated back to the Iron Age.
—Ari Daniel, NPR, 24 Oct. 2025
Archaeologists have used cutting edge techniques to reveal new information about the intricate tattoos of a woman that lived in Siberia during the Iron Age.
—Jack Guy, CNN Money, 31 July 2025
The Romans slaughtered the native inhabitants, thereby bringing a sudden violent end to the Iron Age.
—ArsTechnica, 31 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for the Iron Age
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“The Iron Age.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20Iron%20Age. Accessed 6 Jan. 2026.
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